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KNOW YOUR VOTE: 7 things to know about Proposition 106, the right-to-die ballot initiative
DENVER – In the weeks ahead of the Nov. 8 General Election, Denver7 will be profiling most of the state ballot measures and initiatives. In this edition, we take a look at Proposition 106, also known as Colorado’s “right-to-die” initiative.
Here are 7 things you need to know about Proposition 106: Continue reading
Trump calls for term limits for members of Congress, rails against press at Colorado Springs rally
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Donald Trump served up a proposal to offer a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress in the first of two campaign stops planned in Colorado Tuesday.
He offered no details in Colorado Springs on his plans to institute term limits should he become president, and also said he’d put in place five-year bans on lobbying by members of Congress and their staff, among other bans he suggested dealing with the lobbying of and by both domestic and foreign governments. Continue reading
Data, report show the rarity of voter fraud in U.S. elections
DENVER – As Donald Trump continues to push unfounded claims of election rigging and voter fraud during the upcoming election, it’s important to note that a miniscule amount of confirmed voter fraud has occurred in the U.S. over the past several general elections.
In 2014, the Washington Post and Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt looked into every general election from 2000 to 2014 and found only 31 possible incidents of in-person voter fraud that affected around 241 ballots. Continue reading
Man arrested in Nederland bomb case was little person from California
NEDERLAND, Colo. — A California man was arrested in Chicago over the weekend in connection to the bomb left at a Nederland shopping center that also houses the town’s police headquarters.
A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado on Saturday charges David Michael Ansberry, 64, with manufacturing the explosive device, which was found outside the Nederland police station last week. Continue reading
Colorado secretary of state, spokeswoman lambaste Trump’s ‘rigged election’ comments
DENVER – The spokeswoman for Colorado’s Republican secretary of state offered a strong rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claims that there is voter fraud occurring in what Trump has called a “rigged” election.
“Donald Trump has been tweeting about elections being rigged, but he offers no evidence of such,” Secretary of State Communications Director Lynn Bartels said in a statement to Denver7. “I can say on Twitter I’m a super model, but that doesn’t make it so.” Continue reading
Hickenlooper denounces Trump’s comments; Trump says new claims are lies, blames woman’s looks
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, decided Friday it was time to denounce Donald Trump’s comments about being able to sexually assault women because of his fame – a week after the comments were made.
Hickenlooper held a news conference in Colorado Springs Friday afternoon to make the announcement at a Hillary Clinton campaign office. Continue reading
Wikileaks emails: Clinton camp wanted to avoid discussing health care in Colorado before primaries
DENVER – Hillary Clinton’s campaign wanted to avoid talking about health care and what at the time was a proposal for a single-payer system in Colorado supported by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, when she spoke to crowds in Denver and Boulder last November.
The revelation was made in emails purportedly from high-level Clinton staffers released by Wikileaks over the past week. Continue reading
“There was a true threat here” Bomb squad dismantles explosive found near Nederland police HQ
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – Bomb squad robots moved in on an explosive device found Tuesday afternoon, hours after a police officer picked up a backpack, not knowing what hid in the backpack.
Nederland Police Marshal Paul Carrill said Tuesday night, more than 12 hours after police first stumbled across the device, that officers arriving at work Tuesday morning believed a backpack left near police headquarters in Nederland could have been lost property. Continue reading
After subpoena, VA turns over documents on costly hospital
DENVER — The Veterans Affairs Department turned over documents to Congress on Wednesday in response to a subpoena demanding information about how the cost of a Denver-area VA hospital soared more than $1 billion over budget.
VA spokeswoman Linda West said the department gave the House Veterans Affairs Committee some of the documents that lawmakers wanted and that more were on the way. Continue reading
Violent and property crime up in Colorado in 2015; murder, car thefts way up
DENVER – Colorado saw small increases in both violent and property crime last year, according to new statistics released Monday by the FBI.
Overall, violent crime was up 6.2 percent statewide from 2014 to 2015, and property crime was up 6.1 percent. Continue reading